#schizo-spec

[schizopositivity]

Things I'd love for the Internet to leave in 2023:

• misusing the word "delusional" or saying "delulu"

• public freakout videos that are just someone displaying psychotic symptoms

• "I'm in your walls" and other paranoia triggering "jokes"

• schizoposting

• misusing the word "psychotic"

• baiting and triggering people online who are openly psychotic or displaying psychotic symptoms

• excluding schizo-spec and psychotic people from any neurodiversity/mental illness awareness

Let's just all try to be better to schizo-spec and psychotic people. And hold others accountable as well.

#2024 #new years eve #tw im in your walls #tw paranoia #mental illness #nd #schizophrenia #neurodivergent #schizophrenic #psychosis #actuallyschizophrenic #mental health awareness #pseriouslypsychotic #schizo-spec

[ginayoung]

Ugh there's a band that plays lots of shows in my town and they have "schizo" in their band name. Nothing on any of their bios says any members are schizo-spec, or talks about the meaning behind the name at all, but they do describe themselves as "wild" and "insane". It's just so annoying honestly. I'm always checking my favorite local venue's upcoming shows and whenever I see that band name I just roll my eyes. It would be different if they used their platform to spread awareness about schizo-spec disorders, but it seems like they just use "schizo" to seem weird and crazy which is just so disappointing to see over and over again.

#schizo-spec #schizophrenia #tw sanism #in them using schizo and seeminlgy equating it with being insane for shock value

[a-timeless-illness]

Paranoid Personality Disorder (Premorbid) Symbol + Flags

[Image ID: A 6 horizontally striped flag with a symbol in the middle. The stripes from up to down are pastel yellow, orange, maroon, eggplant purple, lilaec, and light lavender. The symbol is an eye where the pupil is a swirl. The eyes sides have arrows rhat go up, then down. The symbol has a gradient of the flag colors, and is outlined with white. End ID]

[Image ID: A 6 horizontally striped flag where the stripes from up to down are pastel yellow, orange, maroon, eggplant purple, lilaec, and light lavender. End ID]

Symbol with and without gradient

[Image ID: An image of a symbol where the symbol is an eye where the pupil is a swirl. The eyes sides have arrows rhat go up, then down. The symbol has a gradient of yellow, orange, pink, and dark purple. It's outlined in white. End ID]

[Image ID: An image of a symbol where the symbol is an eye where the pupil is a swirl. The eyes sides have arrows rhat go up, then down. The symbol is lined with black and outlined with white. End ID]

#ppd #schizophrenia #schizospec #paranoid personality disorder traits #actually paranoid #paranoid personality disorder #paranoid #schizo #schizoaffective #schizophreniform #schizophrenic #actually schizophrenic #schizo-spec #schizo-spectrum #flags #☆ posts #mogai #mogai safe #liom #actually ppd #disability #disabled #pd #cluster a #image id

[neuroticboyfriend]

hi i was wondering what the best word for someone who isn't schizophrenic to use to describe someone who is? (just because on the post where you talked about the shorter version being a slur but also reclaimable inside community (totally makes sense!) i wasn't sure if that meant just the shortened version or the whole word as well.)

(if there's a resource you wanna point me to instead rad just wasn't sure my own research would land me w shit aside from abelist doctors )

it varies by person to person - some of us may not mind others calling us schizo (as long as they dont use it as a slur). but generally, just saying we're schizophrenic/whatever our label is (schizotypal, schizoid, schizoaffective, schizophrenic, schizophreniform...). schizo-spec/schizospec is also okay usually, since it's a shortening of schizophrenia spectrum; but because it uses the term schizo, some of us may not be comfortable with non-schizospecs using it for us. so just don't use it around those of us who aren't comfy with that.

but ultimately (when possible) it's best to ask us (as individuals) what we want to be called/described with.

#asks #schizospec #schizo #schizophrenia #schizophrenic #schizotypal #schizoid #schizoaffective #schizophrenia spectrum #schizo-spec #schizo spec #schizo spectrum #schizophrenic spectrum #actually schizophrenic #schizoid personality disorder #schizotypal personality disorder #schizophreniform #actually schizospec #neurodivergent #neurodivergency #actually neurodivergent

[narcatsisst]

ipseity disturbance is so stupid because it makes me question if i'm a system constantly because i feel like a lot of my thoughts arent my own even though i know that they are my own. like when i say theres a brain worm telling me to do something i mean it thats what it feels like. i know the thought is mine and it comes from me but it is so disconnected from myself it feels like i have a parasite or brain worm or some shit but the relationship is completely symbiotic. sometimes its nice i'll do something bad and ill be like "i should kms" and then brain worm is like Shut the fuck up its not that serious. and im like so true... but its hard to explain because if i try to say this to a normal person theyll be like Wtf because sometimes i bicker with the brain worm but im not actually arguing with someone else im just arguing with myself but the disconnected thoughts of myself. And i know this probably makes zero sense

#actually stpd #stpd #schizotypal #schizo-spec #ipseity disturbance #thought ipseity

[mad-pride]

Schizospec Autism Flag

This flag represents those who are on both spectrums (schizophrenia spectrum and autism spectrum). Although autistic schizophrenia (also known as schizophrenic autism, or Bleuler's autism 4A's symptoms in psychopathology) is its own concept, this is not the exactly same.

Words: schizaut/schizau (schizautism/schizautistic), schizoautism (schizoautistic).

#schizo-spec #schizospec #schizophrenia spectrum #actually schizophrenic #actuallyschizophrenic #schizophreniac #autism spectrum #actuallyautistic #actually autistic #autispec #autspec #auti-spec #aut-spec #y8 #mad pride flags #flag edit #bleuler 4a's symptoms #psychopathology #asd #auspec #au-spec #autist

[abyssa111]

Hi random question for the schizo-specs, is it delusions/hallucinations if I know that it might not be real. Like during episodes I’m completely convinced it’s real but I’m able to look back later and be like “that was a delusion”. And whenever I’m in an episode again I find it hard to call them not real / delusions, despite earlier being able to.

#abysa1 zone #schizo-spec #actually schizospec #schizotypal #schizophrenia #schizoid

[self-dx-culture-is]

Self dx schizo-spec culture is figuring out that your parent is also probably on the spectrum so there's a risk that your siblings are schizo-spec too

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#self dx culture is #schizo-spec #schizospec #genetics #family neurodivergence #anon

[chaosgremlim]

TW: Formication, tactile hallucinations, derealization.

The neurodivergent urge to gouge out your skin to stop existing and letting The Worms™️ free.

#neurodivergent #neurodivergencies #that neurodivergent urge #psychosis #SzPD #Schizoid #Schizoid stuff #Schizo-spec #random thoughts #saw one of these and wanted to make my own less quirky and more #get this kid help #version #y’know #rambling #specially on tags

[trans-axolotl]

idk i think a lot of people sort of build up schizo-spec diagnoses in their head as this example of a "clearly biomedical disease that is the scariest possible example of mental illness that is always a crisis no matter what." and i'm not going to sit here and say that schizoaffective is always pleasant to live with, or pretend that it's something that I can manage perfectly-it does cause me distress a lot of the time, and makes some things very difficult. but for me, psychosis is by far not the most difficult symptom i have to deal with, compared to some of the other things that have brought me distress. And yet it's always the symptom that is reacted to with the most fear, confusion, and disgust by other people. I hate it when people generalize psychosis as always and inherently and forever a crisis, and ignore the fact that everyone who experiences psychosis is going to have their own experiences, perspectives on how it impacts them, and that treating psychosis as a super scary, inherently dangerous symptom is incredibly stigmatizing and prevents us from receiving support and care from our communities.

idk. i just really wish people would realize that for some people, psychosis can sometimes be a neutral or even positive experience (i've had some incredibly lovely psychosis experiences), and that by positioning psychosis as a "super scary disease that has no quality of life" and only offering carceral solutions, it perpetuates a pattern where we get continually pushed into harmful treatments. Instead of a situation where our autonomy is respected, where we're offered a wide variety of treatments from meds to therapies to peer support like Hearing Voices Network to material community based support and where we're allowed to define our own experience of psychosis based on how it actually affects us. like, i don't want to deny that psychosis is often distressing for many of us--but I do think we have the responsibility to evaluate where we've learned about psychosis, what societal messages we've internalized about psychosis, what kinds of knowledge about psychosis do we not have access to, and just actually think in depth about how our biases impact how we communicate about psychosis.

#personal #psychosis #schizo spec #psych abolition #mad liberation #antipsych

[anothersmallfeat]

Spoilers, theory, arcane:

Can somebody who watches Arcane tell me if other characters have real time flashbacks like when Vi is hurt and keeps hearing and seeing stuff from her past?

I think the creators did such a good job depicting psychosis that they know it has a genetic link. I think Vi has it but not nearly as bad. To the point Vi probably doesn't realize it's not normal, and might only really pop up when she's really hurt.

Anyway, I'm here for Vi/Cait dynamic and how they would each handle finding out Vi may also be prone to hallucinations. And comfort fics where Powder gets antipsychotics if you have them.

#arcane #arcane jinx #arcane vi #arcane caitlyn #violyn #psychosis #schizo-spec

[schizopositivity]

Words that are very important to schizo-spec and psychotic people because they are the few words that accurately describe our unique and often life-changing experience:

• delusion/delusional

• hallucinate/hallucinating

• psychosis/psychotic

•schizophrenia/schizophrenic

• paranoia/paranoid

• word salad

Please don't use these words incorrectly. It does directly impact us. Yes the meaning of words evolves, but we don't have words to replace these ones. But you have words to replace these if you are using them as descriptors for something evil, unpredictable, selfish, contradictory, scared, misspeaking, etc.

#mental illness #nd #schizophrenia #neurodivergent #schizophrenic #psychosis #actuallyschizophrenic #mental health awareness #pseriouslypsychotic #delusion #delusional #delulu #hallucinating #hallucination #schizo-spec #schizoaffetive disorder #paranoia #paranoid #word salad #psychotic #mental health

[schizoetic]

Just because something you experience in psychosis isn't happening in reality, it doesn't mean it wasn't real to you. The trauma you get from those experiences is real.

#psychosis #psychotic #schizophrenia #psychotic break #schizophrenic spectrum #schizo spectrum #schizoaffective #schizo speaking #schizo spec

[caitas-cooing]

The way people with "scary" mental health disorders are treated by society is scarier than the people who have those mental health disorders could ever be tbh

#like it seems almost every schizo spec person has a story that is just horrifyingly terrible from people who were supposed to be helpful #so does every autistic person (myself included) #every person with a personality disorder #every person with did #every bipolar person #the list goes on #hell even misdiagnosed people are treated like #why can't people just be nice

[madpunks]

i know that some neurodivergent folks struggle to read typos and disordered writing, but if you are the type of person who feels compelled to correct grammar and spelling when it's not related to struggling to parse what someone is saying, please do not do it to a schizophrenic or schizospectrum person. we often times mix up similar sounding words, mix up the order of sentences, say things that straight up don't make sense, or spell words in ways that make sense to us, but are not spelled 'correctly' and have no idea we did it.

if you can't parse what we said, please just ask us to say or explain it again. don't interject and say "oh you meant this," or go "it's spelled necessary*" or laugh at them for mixing up words or not knowing how to spell something correctly. it's not funny, it's a product of someone else's disability. just ask for clarification instead. we don't care about whether or not every single sentence we say is grammatically correct. sometimes you have to overlook those mistakes and engage with the person on their level.

#schizophrenia #schizoaffective disorder #schizoaffective #schizospectrum #schizo spectrum #schizospec #schizo spec #actually schizoaffective #actually schizophrenic #mental illness #neurodivergent #mental health #neurodivergence #mental health awareness #actually mentally ill #neurodiversity #neuropunk #madpunk #our writing #psychosis #psychotic disorders #psychotic disorder #psychotic

[neuroticboyfriend]

person: *coincidentally says something related to what i was just thinking about*

me:

[ID: An anime character gesturing towards a yellow butterfly. The captioning at the bottom originally reads "Is this a pigeon?" - this being the butterfly. The text is edited to read "Is this a secret message just for me?" /End ID]

#softspoonie #psychosis #schizoaffective #schizophrenic #actually schizoaffective #schizophrenia #schizo spectrum #actually schizophrenic #actually psychotic #psychotic #actually delusional #delusional #delusions #delusion of reference #delusions of reference #schizospec #schizo spec #schizophrenia spectrum #mental health #mentally ill #mental illness #mental illness memes #psychosis memes #schizophrenia memes #memes